Remembering Molly

Fine writers and close friends gathered Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the passions and the prescience of Molly Ivins, the larger-than-life Texan who spent every day of her life fighting for what she believed in, until cancer killed her last January, at the age of 62.

The crowd at the Society for Ethical Culture included former Read More

Hillary’s Rough Week

The “plantation” remark seems mostly forgotten, but Arianna Huffington piles on Hillary nonetheless, countering what she sees as the conventional wisdom that Hillary is a lock. I think there may be a new “Hillary: Not Such a Lock?” bit of conventional wisdom emerging actually…and there’s a lot of time for yet more conventional wisdom Read More